Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-03
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| possibility OF being increased, since u mas
lately been discovered that the bark OF the
root contains what promises 70 be an aVaila-
| bic cOloring matter.
THERE has just died IN Beverly township.
Canada, venerable will ose. Thirty
years ago Morris shetland bought il OF Dir.
| Harris, OF Cat, who eighteen years before
| that taught 1t. How old the goose was when
captured, forty eight years ago, no one
| knows.
NEVADA CITY boasts OF strong man, big
! Cornish miner. who the other dav. when a
/ ride''s saddle turned and threw him to the
| ground with his foot fast in the stirrup.
| seized the frightened horse by The tail and
! held him by ain Strength until the rider
| was rescued from his DANCE rous situation.
IN the mountains Of the South are to be
found schools denominated bowling schools.
! The name IS derived from tn fact that it is
the custom for the pupils all to study their
| lessons aloud. The idea IN these districts
| prevails that children can only study aloud
| The me Gu tom prevails in China. There.
| whenever pupil stops moving" his
| teacher hogs Rim because he has ceased to
| study.
| HIGHLAND CHIEF, being on his deathbed,
was exhorted to forgive his enemies. He
| called his eldest son to his bed side, and thus
| spoke his last: "Donald, you see what pass
have come to, and I m tod that must for
| give nv enemies. and especially the McTav-
| Ism; and. for nv souls sake, do forgie him
accordingly. But. Donald, ma dear son, il
ever ye forgie the lavish, or any o. his
| internal name, may ma curse rest on ye for
ever and ever. AmenW
THE following literary note is from the Ari-
| IONA Howler: 1--WE notice that few ornery
Eastern papers condemn the use OF the phrase
in our midst We would tell these dudes
| that they don't know what they are talking
| about. Last week. for instance. We stated
| that we had been suffering from a severe at .
| tack or collie in our midst and we will leave
| 1t 70 any of our intelligent readers II that
| isn't A Engli-h. 1t NAV be that the Eastern
| papers know where our collie was better than
we 20, but we doubt 1t. Come out to Arizona,
gents, II you want to learn how tt sling
United States with neatness and dispatch"
WHILE the steamer Mongxeet was taking
rice at Bangkok on Dec. q coolie, after a
days work. took smoke of opium, and then
crawled under beam in the Id. Then he
fell into stupor. was not discovered, and the
| hold was filled and the hatch clos ed. Ten
| DAYS after, at Hong Kong, he was found, an Dr..
| when taken to the upper air at once revived,
| and soon was apparently well. He han been
| unconscious during the ten days, and it is
| thought that the moist heat from the rice had
kept MS oodV warm, ana the clammy air in
| the hold brought him into a coma tose condi-
ton, from which he awoke only when fresh
air was admitted.
MEN who write books about slang might
| find material In some restaurants. In Kan
sas City there is an abundance of it. Only in
one place in st. Louis-on Morgan street
can you hear downright slang n the giving of
| orders. and curious it is If you tell the
| waiter you want an oyster stew. he shouts
| out TO the kitchen, ''JessP james," beef
steak hecomes ''slaughter in the PAM" plain,
ack coffee is coffee in the dark" poto ops
| unDeeed are 'Murphv with his coat on;''
| two eggs fried on one side are transformed
| into sunny side up" huckwheat cakes are
spoken OF in gambler IA hion as "stack of
Isl ack OF whies,'
WILD cHICCoRY has been made the subject
OF many legends, especially in Germany.
where it is known by several names, one OF
| them being wegewarte. or road guardian
| The popular explanation of the term is as fol-
| lows: young princes, whom her beloved
| spouse had ab1ndon ned d clared that she
would like to die: hut yet she loneed TO see
the loved one again, and the m alden who bore
| her com any expressed a similar desir..
| Their wi-hes were realized. They were
turned into flowers, white and blue, and sta
able to see the Owed and Lost prince whenever
he rode by. And, since that time the plant
has been called the guardian of roads.
AUDUBON. the great ornithologist and
naiuralis'. spent a considerable time at Wash
ington, obtaining subscribers for his great
work. he was then nearly. if not quite o.
years Of age, and was about tie middle
stature, with snow white hair combed back
| from an ample forehead, and gray aide
| whlskers. His face was sharp at the chin.
| with an aquiline nose. and his small hazel
| eyes twink led with good nature. It was his
boast that he had not taken dose of medi-
| cine for twenty wears. yet that he could walk
| thlrty-fve miles dav with ease for months
sleeping II necessary In the open air. He " ore
| dark frock coat and trOuserr with a velvet
hn nd To nea.
| the House post Office. which he used to make
! his hea,iq arters at the capitol, by his MARIA
lions of forest life,
/ In an address to the Harvard Medical
School Oliver Wendell Holmes once referred
TO the achromatic microscope as hav NC
'created a new era in medical science" and
he illustrated the power OF the instrument BY
| saying. while a scrap of human skin was
! under the glass. that the fragment thus mag
nned represented an individual just one mile
| in height. HIS breadth and thick ness be n
| IN proportion to his ne ght. his weight would
| be 10000 600 90 pounds, equal TO &C, 900 900
| tons. "He could take our STATE Honse up as
| we should lift a paving stone" the doctor
| added. land ding it into the waters bey nd
Boston lighthouse, Cleaning out that palace
o. the people by summary process Quicker
! than the pral0rian bands of Domtiian or Com
mOdns would have cleared out a Romar
| senate chamber that dared 10 have an opinion
| OF it's own"
| ELLEN TERRY once having received special
courtesy from newspaper man, offered to
introduce him to Mr. Irving, but uniortu-
nately when, shortly afterward the opportu
! nity OF doing so presented Itself, she had ut
terly forgotten his name. but felt that il won a
| be an i'll compliment to tie him so. Her real
| wit did not forsaKe her in tina trying emr--
| gency, and she prompt said to INN: ado
| you know, I've made a bet with Mr. fryins
ana you can decide it. ! say you spell your
| name one way; he says another. WriiV il for
| me-" All unaware OF the trick which was
| Icing played u!on HIM. The gentleman write
his name and handed IL TO the sctress. She
glanced att hastily, laughed and sid ga ly,
I've won the bet" IL was such a realistic
bit Of acting that the newspaper man. Al
though il was his business to criticise PLAYS
and players, never detected 1t
SECRETARY DoBBIN, OF North Carolina
used 10 narrate with great fee ing the death
be scene OF Judge CASTOR, of North c aroina
surrounded by "A few Of his chosen friends.
who were az his bedside on the irst in imation
oil Il danger to which ne was sensIble. he
was relating with great payfuln"ss the mar
ticulars OF u cornwall party at Washing on
city. many years before. and spoke of one
who on hat occasion aVowed him -elf a 'rree-
thinker" In religion. From hat dny.n snId
Judge CASTOR, 81 awavs loot ed on that man
with distru~t DO not say that q Tree think,
may not be an honor BILE man; THAI he may
not from nigh motives sc"rn to 40 a mean
act; but dsre not trust him. belief in nm
wh 'se eye Is upon u, and VIM viii rewarn
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